Chevy Volt as toad and battery system for RV

I thought about this on a much smaller scale where I would take along my 36 volt golf cart and be able to add it to the rv battery bank without rewiring and/or moving batteries around. Just dreaming at this point but I thought of adding wiring for three 12 volt taps that would go to three separate inverters which would feed three separate circuits.

Of course with the Volt you would need a rack to hold your inverter farm and a load center larger then the one found at the 'ol S&B, but perhaps we are only dreaming.

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The Tesla will have an option to supply back up electricity for your house from the car. I have a SolarCity system at my house and I was interviewed as to whether I'd be interested in such an option. They are going to install a LI system in my house this fall so I can get rid of my generator for backup.
Everything we are discussing is possible. Just depends on the market. You're pulling a toad, might as well use it for more than s grocery getter

I was reading something similar to the Nissan article above that in Germany?,
they are working electric vehicles being the "power" source locally. So instead of have 1 big power station distributing power to homes, each house in a village would use their car to tap into the local grid and supply the grid with electricity. Almost like having hundreds/thousands of mini-power stations - similar to how small local solar farms are doing it now.

It's not a huge leap to use your electric/hybrid car to power the RV; When the batteries run low, drive around and recharge the Lion batteries. Lithium batteries can tolerate high current and get recharged pretty quickly. DC-DC converters are easy, so that problem has been solved.

sdianel wrote:
I agree with the idea. I would like to see an RV manufacturer and Chevrolet get together and design an RV with a plug in the back and Chevrolet build a toad that would be towable 4-down, plugged into the outlet on the rear of the coach so that it charges as you go down the road.

I already have something like that.

But my "toad" is in front and it's a Ford.
It is usually called a class C. :B

BOTH sets of batteries charge as I go down the road.
And I could use the "toad" to charge the coach batteries if I wanted to; it actually charges faster but uses about 6X the amount of gas that the generator does.

I agree with the idea. I would like to see an RV manufacturer and Chevrolet get together and design an RV with a plug in the back and Chevrolet build a toad that would be towable 4-down, plugged into the outlet on the rear of the coach so that it charges as you go down the road.

Nissan is working on a similar project to power homes.

The Department of Defense is also doing tests.

Maybe there is something to the OP's idea? :)

Looks like Ford is interested in the RV industry. :B:B:B

I don't know if it would work or not. I think it's a good idea even if it is not practical.
Ideas are how things get started. Thanks for posting your idea, it gives us something to think about. :)

X2 If there was a significant market for toads we'd see more not less.